The definition of genocide was coined in 1944 by a Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, who promoted the establishment of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, in the aftermath of the Holocaust committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people during the Second World War. Often seen as the “crime of crimes”, genocide is defined by the special intent to “destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”. Nonetheless, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) itself has previously made clear, the use of force, even...